#not bashing just an observation
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Okay, as much as I love the positive Rise x 2012 crossover comics/drawings and fanfics where Rise helps 2012 with their problems, there is no way the boys would start crying or talking about their physical and mental scars upon the first meeting. They wouldn’t be open for hugs (maybe Mikey, but that’s the only one I can see). 2012 went through the ringer and no amount of Dr. Feelings/Dr. Delicate Touch is gonna help that. Here’s what Rise would have to help 2012 work through both individually and altogether:
**Please look at the “Altogether” section before notifying me if I forgot one; Otherwise, I may have genuinely forgot… this was all from what I can remember
**This is NOT bashing the fics, art, Rottmnt.
Leonardo
Possessed/Controlled (Parasitica, Buried Secrets, China Town Ghost Story)
Burdened with being the leader/eldest/Sensei
Right knee is fucked
Dislocated shoulder and arms (both causes of his arms being Super Shredder)
Weakened heart from when he died in space and was resuscitated
Has fallen off multiple high points (elevator shafts, rooftops, fire escapes)
Hands are most likely damaged from holding onto the chains that were wrapped around Kraang prime
Was in a 3-month coma
Throat was ruined
Was bitten by Armaggon
Hit by a blast meant to take out Hiidrala (The Cosmic Ocean)
Deal with having slain Shredder
Captured
Was thrown through a second story window
Cracked shell
Training/Battle injuries: hits on the head, kicks to the plastron or carapace, thrown into buildings or debris, pressure pointed
Under way too much pressure
Almost cut up by swords (Fourfold Trap)
Struggles with perfectionism; he’ll often feel at fault or like he failed for things out of his control (i.e. when Karai fell into the mutagen)
Frustrated as he doesn’t always get a lot of respect (particularly in the earlier seasons)
Took some bad advice from Splinter to heart— most of the time it added to the burden he carried as the leader
Betrayed by Karai
Raphael
Possessed/Controlled (Parasitica, brain worm, vampire, Chinatown Ghost Story)
Has watched those he cared about fallen from high places (Spike/Slash, Splinter, Zog, Leo)
Had to deal with his phobia (Cockroach Terminator, Insecta Trifecta)
Switched bodies
Lightning bolt plastron crack
Captured (and tortured - Clash of the Mutanimals, Within the Woods)
Betrayed by his girlfriend
Electrocuted
Nearly cooked to death (Fourfold Trap)
Swallowed squirrelanoids
Lost Spike to mutation
Nearly had to give away Chompy
Fell from various high heights (ravines)
Anger issues
Felt unfavored compared to Leo
Training/Battle injuries: hits on the head, kicks to the plastron or carapace, thrown into buildings or debris, pressure pointed
Watched Splinter be thrown into a sewer drain and nearly drown
Watched Spike/Slash, Zog, and Splinter fall off/be thrown off the rooftops
Donatello
Possessed/controlled (Parasitica, Buried Secrets, a car)
Electrocuted
Captured
Nearly cut up by Vizioso’s goons
Watched Splinter be thrown into a sewer drain and nearly drown
Lost metalhead
Under too much pressure
Burdened by being the only tech/science guy
Struggles sometimes with the fact that he’s a mutant
Struggles with his weapon— not handling, but that it is very simplistic compared to some of the more high tech things they deal with
Has his experiments ruined or messed with
Became mindless
Training/Battle injuries: hits on the head, kicks to the plastron or carapace, thrown into buildings or debris, pressure pointed
Has to change his jargon so his family can understand what he’s saying
Michelangelo
Captured
Tortured by Triceratons
Frustrated as he’s not always taken seriously
Mind invaded by neutrinos
Possessed/Contolled (Chinatown Ghost Story, Buried Secrets)
Struggles sometimes with accepting that he’s a mutant (earlier seasons— wanted various human friends besides April and Casey)
Swallowed by Mega Shredder
Burned his ass on a geyser (Eyes of the Chimera)
Betrayed by Bradford
Watched Splinter be thrown into a sewer drain and nearly drown
Training/Battle injuries: hits on the head (is hit a lot more than the others on the head in combat), kicks to the plastron or carapace, thrown into buildings or debris, pressure pointed
Was alone in Dimension X for an unknown amount of time
Nearly drowned (Invasion of the Squirrelanoids)
Knowingly/unknowingly and sometimes unwillingly made the bait or drew the short straw
Separated from Leatherhead
Altogether
Saw Master Splinter die (twice)
Watched their dad fall into the abyss (The Super Shredder/Darkest Plight)
Saw their world be destroyed
Survived multiple invasions (Kraang, Triceratons, Kavaxas, Dregg)
Saw their sister fall into mutagen
Fought various horrifying/disgusting mutants (Mom Thing, Squirrelanoids, The Creep, Parasitica, Dregg’s bugs, mutated cockroach, Snakeweed, Muckman, Rat King, mutated fungi, Don Vizioso, April clones/April Derp etc)
Witnessed each other’s deaths: Raph drained of mutagen in Within the Woods; Donnie - reduced to molecules in The Power Inside Her; Leo - died in space in Earth’s Last Stand; Mikey - vaporized by K’Vathrak/The Newtralizer in When Worlds Collide
Witnessed various other deaths: Bradford/Rahzar/Dog Pound, Tang Shen, Hattori Tatsu
Have had their minds taken over
Poisoned by Karai
Electrocuted
Nearly froze to death (Moons of Thalos 3)
Inhaled hallucinogenic toxins
Survived various explosions
Survivor’s guilt
Have been fighting in multiple rigged or burning buildings
Almost burned up entering the atmosphere (Battle for New York)
Had a “nightmare”— courtesy of Jei—where they were the last ones standing after their brothers had been killed
Witnessed the undead (Shredder, Rahzar, various spirits)
Possessed/controlled by Jei; dream beavers
Dimensional and Time travel
Had to fight each other or their friends unwillingly
Went no contact with April after having a hand in accidentally mutating her dad
Severe injuries from various opponents (Slash, Tiger Claw, Newtralizer, Super Shredder, footbots/chrome domes)
#tmnt#tmnt 2012#tmnt 2012 leo#tmnt 2012 raph#tmnt 2012 mikey#tmnt 2012 donnie#rottmnt#mari rambles#not bashing just an observation#I’m sure the comics and fics are in jest#but some of them that are more serious… yeah 2012 has tons of shit#and I swear if someone asks or says the word ‘abuse’ I will block your ass
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i have. Thoughts. about the whole tumblr sexyman poll rn
especially cecil vs reigen
see, during the twitter polls, the whole deal with reigen was that he had previously won a bunch of other polls he wasn't qualified for. that's kinda his whole thing, canonically. doing something he's not qualified for. that's why it was Funny, and people wanted to commit to the bit, even in a category he would be decently qualified for (i.e. twitters Tumblr Sexyman poll)
that's why the reigen vs sans showdown was so intense, for lack of a better word
we don't have that buildup for tumblrs sexyman poll
we have people who remember the twitter polls and want to continue the bit, and we have people who actually find reigen to be a better sexyman than cecil im sure
but. cecil is one of THE original tumblr sexymen, one of the og "lets draw this character as a blond twink" sexyman the same way wheatley and bill cipher was. he's loved by this hellsite, and wtnv had had a bigger impact on us than mp100 could reasonably have at this point
the twitter polls could never get an accurate tumblr sexyman result, cause that one was voted on by twitter users, an audience who will never have the same view on tumblr sexymen as we do here. they can only get an approximation of the concept, but it will never be truly genuine. it's like looking at the concept of a tumblr sexyman through a frost covered window and thinking you know exactly how the other side looks
idk. it's like 1 am rn. i just think reigen got as far as he did in the twitter poll because of the buildup he had, but doesnt gain the same benefit here on tumblr, especially not one of THE tumblr sexymen
whatever. cecilsweep ig
#tumblr sexymen poll#cecil palmer#reigen arataka#cecilsweep#the creature opens its mouth#text post#to be fair i AM hoping for cecilsweep here i am just having Thoughts and need to get them out#also i do actually like both of these characters. this isnt character bashing or fandom bashing. just a me thing. an observation perhaps#mob psycho 100#welcome to night vale
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Okay, yes, there's as lot of thought-provoking meta I could talk about in regards to how Wu's first encounter with each ninja reflects their personal motivations for being ninja - Kai wants to protect his loved ones and keep everyone safe, Cole wants to keep the promise he made to his mother, Zane wants to uphold his duties and purpose in life, and Jay is a dreamer who wants to build a better world. And yeah, that's some potentially interesting stuff that's well worth its own full essay.
BUT. Instead I wanna talk about how hilarious it is that Wu was so kind and supportive and gentle with Cole, Jay, and Zane upon first meeting them, but then with Kai they were just. Constantly sassing and insulting each other. Which is amazing. 10/10
For example. With Cole, he provided some comforting wisdom in the wake of his mother's death and his father's subsequent neglect.
And then with Jay, he gave some words of encouragement after his invention failed.
Then with Zane, he was...well, I'm not entirely sure what to call this. Imparting cryptic yet soon-to-be-relevant wisdom, I guess?
And then you have Kai. With Kai, Wu just shows up and starts pelting insults at him. Fantastic. You can't even make the argument that Kai started it because the very first thing Wu says to Kai is an insult towards his blacksmithing. He just saw this kid and was like "oh yeah time to rake this punk over the coals" and I love it.
And I guess if I wanted to get really introspective I could argue that maybe Wu was so harsh with Kai because he instantly clocked into the similarities between Kai and Morro, and treated Kai harshly in a very misguided attempt at preventing Kai from following in Morro's footsteps - BUT I honestly don't wanna get introspective right now, I just think this is kinda funny.
#i wanna be clear im not bashing wu or anything!#just a funny observation i noticed the other day#ninjago#kai smith#kai jiang#kai ninjago#wu ninjago#cole brookstone#cole ninjago#jay walker#zane julien#zane ninjago#destiny post
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Snippets: Free Day Thursday- Viper
Following the prompt from the poll: Haven finds out Jak isn't there for them. We pick up right after the boys fight Veger's robot in the mines and come up at the edge of New Haven.
"This place looks as bad as my old bedroom back home," Daxter scoffed. His keen eyes darted this way and that, looking for any sign of their fugitive.
"Jak! Over here!"
Jak tensed at Samos’s voice. He didn't sound surprised to see them. Onin might have warned him he was coming. Onin...she would be a problem if not dealt with. He'd have to consult with Damas about her.
When Samos called him again, sounding less sure of himself, Jak realized he hadn't reacted at all. Samos doubtless expected him to leap to attend him, as he had been thoroughly trained to do.
Did he want to blow his cover?
Hm. No. Not yet.
Jak turned on his heel and for a moment his heart leaped.
"Keira!"
Samos was forgotten as he rushed towards a shimmering wall that divided the waterfront from New Haven. A force field? Since when did Haven have force fields?! Jak made a note of it. Damas wanted reports; he was a captain now. He had power. That meant he needed to do things right.
"Jak!" Keira's entire face lit up. "I told you, Daddy. I told you I could feel his energy!"
She slapped her hand against the force field, ignoring the sting.
"You're alive-! Jak, I'm so sorry! I- I tried to get into the trial, they wouldn't let me in the building-! Or, or Tess, or Sig! They arrested us when we tried, didn't let us go until they'd taken you away!"
A warm glow spread through Jak's chest. Someone had fought for him. Keira had fought for him! And Tess, and Sig! In a city of vipers, he still had true friends.
Jak placed his own hand on the energy field, feeling the dull burn of its eco as he spread out his fingers over Keira's.
"Thank you," he whispered. "I don't blame you three. Not for any of it. Not for anything. I...I missed you."
Keira sniffled. "I missed you, too," she croaked, "What's it like out there? They say it's...it's nothing! That there's no way to survive! But you look-"
She cut herself off and blushed.
"What's really out there?"
Jak looked up at Daxter and smiled. Daxter nodded back. He didn't know what Jak was going to say, exactly. He'd never been a talker -- he'd really really never been a talker -- but Daxter had seen how proud of their new home Jak got. He couldn't help wanting to know what the big lug would say. Would he talk about the beach he loved so much? About Damas?
To his surprise, Jak only stared earnestly at Keira and whispered back, "Freedom."
Keira closed her eyes. "Freedom," she sighed. "I...thought I had that. Not so sure, now."
"That's why I came back."
Jak took a more guarded posture, casting his eyes about.
"I can help you. But I need your help, too."
Daxter opened the little communicator they'd stolen from the dead metalheads and retrofitted into a small holoprojector. The face of Thrax rotated above the plate, tattooed and scowling.
"You seen this guy?" he asked, waving the holo, "Name's Thrax. Real disreputable character."
Samos blinked at them in shock. "Jak, please, there isn't time! The passages under the palace, they must be terribly important!"
Jak spoke over him, raising his voice slightly. "He's a fugitive from justice. Wanted for treason. I'm under orders to bring him back, dead or alive."
"Under orders?"
Keira's face twisted with concern.
"Whose orders? Ashelin's?"
Daxter scoffed and slid down to sit more comfortably on Jak’s shoulder.
"As if! We have new friends. And they respect us! Heck, they actually like us!"
"And we respect them," Jak added, "So people trying to murder the man who saved my life don't get to walk away. Not from me."
Keira's jaw was tight. They both knew how she felt about him killing hu'men. One day, maybe she would let herself understand that it was no different from the enthralled Lurkers her father had sent Jak to kill when he was far, far too young to have blood on his hands. One day she would have to turn around and face that truth head-on. But Jak was beginning to understand at last that as long as Samos kept her within reach, it would be hard for her to slip the blinders off. It had taken exile for him to be free of his.
"I'll...I'll keep an eye out, and let you know if I see anyone like that." Keira swallowed hard. "It's been...I've been trying to get Veger's shield walls down. He cut Torn off from the city council hall, trapped him down on the waterfront. I think it's-"
Her voice trailed off, then, almost too quietly to hear,
"It's like...divide and conquer."
Anger hissed between Jak's teeth. "Of course it was Veger. He's had his hand in everything, hasn't he?"
He slammed his fist into the force field.
"He's the one who blew up the palace! Five hundred people dead, and for what?! So he could get to some catacombs underneath?!"
"And," Daxter said grimly, "so he could get the guy descended from the last ruler out of here. That guy is high on delusions of grandeur. Real heroes throw him off his groove."
"Catacombs?" Samos broke in, finally seeing a gap in the conversation that he could wedge himself into, "There must be something important down there for him to go to such lengths! Well, you're just going to have to find whatever it is before he does!"
"Oh I am, am I?" Jak asked.
Somehow Samos failed to hear the edge of danger in the boy's voice. He prattled on, patronizing as ever.
"Now, first you'll need to find another way into this section of the city. Take the sewers into the Port, then find a way north to reach us."
When the boys stayed still, looking at him through half-lidded eyes, it finally seemed to occur to the old man that he couldn't just give orders and expect them to be followed blindly anymore. With a touch of chagrin, he added, "And Jak...we're...sorry, for what happened. We should have stopped Veger."
"Yes." Jak turned his back. "You should have. Maybe you wouldn't have war on your doorstep if you'd acted."
"War?" Samos questioned, "With the metalheads?"
Daxter rolled his eyes. "Stumpy-boy, metalheads are about to be the least of your worries."
Jak took a few steps back, eyeing the buildings around him. Then he nodded to himself, got a running start, and launched up the side of the nearest row house.
Winds bless the guy in the youth barracks who'd taken the time to teach him free-running.
In no time at all he was on the roof with only a slight straining in his muscles to show for it. The shield wall only extended about a storey above them. Fair enough, they'd just have to follow the roofs to a higher building and cross from there.
Daxter flipped his goggles down over his eyes and clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth as he scanned New Haven.
Pah. "New Haven". More like New Main Town. All he saw were the rich elite who had survived Veger dropping the palace on their high class district. Where were all the former inhabitants of the North Slum and Water Slum? Shoved into the ruined Main Town or crowded into the waterfront, he had no doubt.
"By the forges, I really hate this place," Jak whispered beside him.
"I don't blame ya, pal," said Daxter grimly. "Not even a little bit. C'mon, let's find Tess. If anyone knows how to find our guy, it's her."
Thrax could run. But there were only so many places he could hide.
Part Two planned for tomorrow
#fic prompts#writing prompts#jak and daxter#jak and daxter au#free day thursday#background dadmas#Keira Hagai#keira gets some of Samos’s lines because she deserves them more#every time i wonder if I'm just Samos bashing i watch the cutscenes#and then i realize that no I'm being rather charitable to the moldy stump#samos hagai#samos is the worst#viper au#jak has power and authority for the first time in his life and he's so determined to use them correctly#he's going to send damas a six page report full of literally every observation he can think of including what the shops are selling#damas thinks its adorable and keeps it in a drawer with a form Mar scribbled on as a toddler#Jak is here to recruit allies and LARP some Assassin's Creed
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Sam Nightingale 🤝 Saccharina Frostwhip
Haters putting all their posts in the character tags
#sam nightingale#saccharina frostwhip#just an observation#are the d20 fans versed in tumblr etiquette?#especially when they're bashing characters and players#dimension 20#the seven d20#a crown of candy
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Not gonna lie, I do kinda wish BG3 had allowed for fat bodies as an option during character creation. I get it, it's a big game, and maybe we as fans hyped it up so much that I heightened my expectations a little much, but idk I just wish games allowed for that kind of diversity of bodies for people that want to see themselves in their character. Especially since a good chunk of the classes hardly require you to be chiseled muscle to ruin some goblin's day.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#i'm not even necessarily complaining but fat bodies should be represented in gaming more than they are#thus far there really isn't much presence of fat people at all in game save for goblin enemies which I just realized today#at least as far as my current playthrough as far as early act 2 is concerned#not bashing just observing
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#this is NOT me starting anything#but i just want to say that you want me to believe that the dude who ripped his leather pants on stage while performing#had a look of regret on his face then kept covering it up the whole time and looked shy and embarrassed#and then went and changed into a different pair of trousers#all while profusely apologising multiple times to the people in front of him (even though he didn't really flash them)#(even though it wasn't really his fault he ripped them) (even though everyone thought it was funny)#you want to be believe that this little squishy bashful shy embarrassed little human is a womaniser?#you want me to believe every horrible and sexualised thing the media has said about him when he was out there#apologising for his pants ripping apart while performing? yeah ok#again this is NOT me starting anything no one said anything this is just my observation and nothing else#my ramblings and nothing else
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I read that same fic earlier and I just straight up muted the person so their works don't show up for me anymore lmao
there was also another one like that posted yesterday because the person was mad at something qBad did a couple of days ago while not at all in his right mind and amnesiac, it was odd (not shitting on the person just confused and slightly concerned)
yeah there’s. a lot of misconceptions around qbad rn lmao. It’s one of the reasons Im so obnoxious about him, tbh, so that it’s not JUST the negativity that gets spread. He’s a really good target for the hate rn, because he has a smaller fanbase and his pvp playstyle + lore lead him to all that antagonizing during purgatory, and that gets vented out into fics.
It’s genuinely really interesting, the dichotomy that seems to exist between tumblr and twitter regarding him. Ive heard nothing but slander about bbh from twitter (again, he is not faking his illness, that is a lie), but he’s got a solid enough foothold on tumblr that ive seen more hate towards the fans that the cc, here. which makes sense, given how we take over the tag almost ever day when he logs on. genuine o7 to people who find that obnoxious but thats one of the reasons i overtag so much, for blocking purposes.
anyway i think all the bbh mischaracterization means that we just need to write about him more >:D please this is a call for more bbh centric fics from people who do not hate him/know a little bit about his lore. blease he’s such a fun pov to write i promise
#mishapen answers#discourse#<- discussion of it anyway#idk maybe people are spreading lies over here too but i block anyone who doesnt filter their neg/go out of their way to make bad faith#arguments.#i think ita REALLY interesting how seeing all the hate towards bad had me finding myself saltier towards other fans/creators too#so i can understand why these vent fics are being put out yknow sometimes its just really fun to hate a guy#but that’s what neg tags and bashing [character] tags on ao3 are for#on tw/itter where a lot of this gets spread you dont really. Have that#dont mind me ive just been ruminating on this a bunch the past two weeks#ive never been so active in a fandom where discourse had the opportunity to actually reach me#its been p interesting to observe how thats effected the way i say and clarify things#<- rhats the main point of my other post ig because if my gifter is someone who has been seeing nothing but bbh neg after bbh neg comes her#*here and sees me swooning about bbh’s ‘only egg protector’ and ‘no one helps him’ complexes Getting Worse during the end of purgatory#then they dont have the context that im doing so strictly for fun and not putting it on other characters/blaming them for not also swooning#we have media literacy in this house i promise#i would like more characters to have flaws and feel alone and commit incredible sins#anyway. excusez-moi im verbose when im tired and procrastinating#anonymous
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After careful consideration and analysis of this season, i've come to the conclusion Gina was looking for a reason to breakup with EJ. That's the only way any of her actions make sense.
My guess is that all the stuff she talked about in the breakup scene were just in the back of her mind the whole relationship. She wanted to ignore it at first, and be a perfect girlfriend for EJ, but when EJ started to slip up a tiny bit on his end, she did too, making her act the way she did instead of having a rational talk with him.
When she said "i can't be a maybe anymore", it always struck me the wrong way, because EJ had showed her nothing of the sort. He had never showed her doubts about their relationship or her in general. I think she projected what she was feeling herself onto EJ. Ricky came back, and he wasn't making her cry anymore, he was actually pretty great, and there when EJ wasn't. It probably made her doubt her choosing EJ instead of Ricky, and made her feelings come flooding back. So when she says "i can't be a maybe anymore" she really means "you can't be a maybe to me anymore".
This would also explain why she was so quick to confess her feelings again to Ricky only one month after breaking up with EJ. When she was with EJ, she was trying to be a girlfriend, instead of just Gina dating EJ. And that eventually killed their relationship, because Gina was very much not in the same page as EJ.
Does that make sense?
Edit: babes, this isn't Gina hate, you're interpreting this all wrong. This is my take on how I think Gina's mind worked in season 3, I'm not condemning any of it, or throwing the blame on her. I'm actually agreeing with what a lot of Rinas had said before???
#hsmtmts#portwell#ej caswell#gina porter#hsmtmts analysis#rina#ricky bowen#tagging this in rina bc it's not really rina bashing#just something i've observed
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Give him every award
#INCREDIBLE deep dive into taylor's career and analysis that is actually and complex as it should be. All the nuance and the context and the#commentary this deserves. I am thrilled by this. He's put words to so many observations and feelings I've had about her.#It's so refreshing to hear analysis that doesn't just bash her endlessly but also doesn't idolizes her as a pure innocent little girl.#I absolutely recommend and i also recommend to you @taylorswift#The whole section about the beatles was enlightening to me. Didn't know about this history and it's fascinating.#He did a truly outstanding job explaining and connecting all the dots.#alexander avila#Ts#Youtube
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Something I want to share (this work contains ships other than johnlock too, just a disclosure.) :
Title: The Theory of Multiple Ships in BBC Sherlock.
Rating: G
Words: 2294.
No Warnings.
Summary:
A different way to look at the character of Sherlock Holmes in BBC Sherlock and various ships in this show.
(This is a meta, not a story.)
Check it out if you're interested! Thanks. :)
#bbc sherlock#sherlock holmes#sherlock meta#sherlock's romantic arc#multishipping#I'm not a multishipper but I just want to watch the show as objectively as possible that's all#archive of our own#ao3#ao3 link#new ao3 work#john watson#irene adler#jim moriarty#johnlock#adlock#sheriarty#I don't mean to bash any ships through this meta#I just wanted to share my observations with you guys
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Friendly neighborhood atheist here to say that I don't understand ex-religious people. I never had one of those so really most religions are functionally the same to me. They don't need to be different. They are different collections of beliefs held by other people. People then act on those beliefs in just a myriad of ways. That is how the concept of religion works from my perspective.
So what I don't get is when I see people who left a religion treating people who are still in that religion as if they are stupid. Maybe I have the benefit of being an outsider, I don't have religious trauma and I don't have first hand experience with any religion (maybe Christianity because I do live in the US and have been inside of a church for a wedding). I just don't understand how someone can look at the concept of religion, which is older than any religion anyone today is practicing for sure, and see all of the time and all of the people involved and go "My experience was bad so everyone's experience is bad, and if they say it's not they're brainwashed"
Idk maybe the entirety of the history of the world isn't just suffering. Maybe people keep making religions because there is something inherently pleasant about it and maybe being secular doesn't mean we are living more authentic lives than anybody else.
#its midnight and i just read a bunch of people bashing a woman for wearing hijab#most of them claimed to be ex muslims#and i just don't get it#how is it that hard to imagine that someone has different experiences than you?#also as an outside observer i can attest that even without a book people still make rules to live by#like its okay to live by rules if you want to#i have rules i live by#sure they arent a religion but theyre my rules and theyre jo more valid than anyone else's just bc i made them myself#and like i get it i had a holier than thou atheist phase in middle school too but now im an adult and i act like one
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I absolutely adore the way you write Harry and Ron as clever and snarky in their own ways (Harry's conversation with Snape was hilarious and clever in Norberta). All too often in Dramione fanfics they are shown as lesser than because writers want to make Draco and Hermione exceptional, but your D and H are incredibly interesting and smart on a level that still allows them to shine next to remarkably wonderful Harry, Ron and all the other fascinating characters you write
Thank you so much! This is a really touching compliment, because I share the same pet peeve. Something I was careful of when writing the fic was not to pitch Harry and Ron too OOC (as with all canon divergences, you increasingly can't help it, and I think it shows in Harry the most — I just have to steer him a bit harder than JKR does in order to develop him when I can't rely on his internal monologue). I think there are three major reasons that Harry and Ron get washed out in Dramione fics — the first being a simple plot mechanic to get Hermione alone and in a mental state where she would be open to a connection with Draco, which, admittedly, is pretty unlikely if Harry and Ron remain in the picture. By the time OOTP wraps, she and Draco are just so ensconced in their separate social circles that she seems to regard him as irrelevant in HBP, so obviously, if they're going to get together sometime in that timeframe or afterward, their social situations need to change. On the other hand, though, if a fanfiction is taken in some respects as a theoretical argument for how a ship could happen, I always thought Harry/Ron bashing was implicitly a sort of weak argument for D/H, because it requires Hermione to be totally iced out of her own friend group before she considers Draco as a friend or partner. Not to mention that you lose the opportunity to develop these rich auxiliary relationships (Hermione and Harry as unofficial siblings, Draco and Harry as foils, Draco and Ron as foils, Harry and Ron as platonic soulmates) that provide shape and contrast to Draco and Hermione's relationship. The books are a story about love and family! Different kinds of love! And deep platonic love, honestly, more than anything else!
The other side of the coin is that bashing sometimes happens as a natural consequence of having to Do Something About Ron. The need to retcon Hermione's crush and/or relationship and/or marriage with Ron to clear the stage for Draco means that a fanfic author has to just fiat some stuff from the books out of existence. And so you get Death Eater Ron, or Ron as a terrible boyfriend, or cheating, or just being cruel. Or dead! I've read a few where Ron just gets unceremoniously fridged, which is maybe a little better than character assassination, but also pretty sad for all rare us Dramione Ron Enjoyers. Like, I don't think that Ron and Hermione would work out, but I think that's because they share zero interests and tend to aggravate each other's insecurities, not because they don't care about each other, or God forbid, that Ron was secretly a shit person and a bad friend for seven years.
Then you have the final group, which is people who actually do dislike Ron for his behavior in the text. Everyone has that right, so I don't hate, and I can especially understand it if you read his arcs in Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows a certain way (I hate the first half of Deathly Hallows, actually, almost exclusively because of the dumb ass Ron's Vacation subplot). JKR doesn't do him any favors here, because she doesn't give him a real reconciliation with Harry or Hermione before he comes back in Deathly Hallows — all their fights sort of end with a shrug and a joke and a comment like, "wow, that sucked, let's not do that again," which is not unrealistic, if you're talking about teenagers, but also does not solve the problem that caused the fight, and we know that because it keeps happening in other books: someone steps on Ron's feelings, he lashes out, they get hurt, and instead of asking for sympathy or trusting his friends to mend his feelings if he explains them, he storms off to sulk. (This is a pattern that I imagine starting at the Burrow, when poor Arthur and Molly just wouldn't have had time to have proper sit-downs and debriefs whenever their kids fought, and so Ron's self-soothing method was to isolate — we see hints of this in Chapter 32-33, and again near the end of Chapter 38 — until he can pretend to get over it.) But going from just canon, it's not impossible to come up with a reading of Ron as this selfish jerk who gets jealous of his friends and screws them over when he gets mad at them. A lot of those people come to Dramione for the catharsis of watching Hermione find a bond with someone who just... doesn't do that, and I don't blame them at all. All the same, I hope Lionheart!Ron can offer an opportunity to experience the joys of Ron Enjoyment for a wider demographic.
#greenteacup asks#lionheart#lionheart spoilers#character meta#I meant to talk about more characters besides just Ron here but I got carried away#because I think Ron gets the worst of it in dramione fic especially#I say this as someone who loves dramione fic including several ron-bashing fics#I think ma/na/cled is maybe the one fic that threads the needle on this - that Ron isn't to my tastes but#it does give him and Harry defining traits and good qualities beyond Being Shit To Hermione#and in the context of the grimdark war fic that ma/na/cled is it makes some version of sense#since the thesis of ma/na/cled's Golden Trio is basically to take the trio's natural reliance on Hermione's intellect#and stretch it to the point of toxic dependency and possibly abuse. which is an interesting take! and a wry observation#about how Hermione's role as Mother to Harry (orphan) and Ron (attention-starved) could very easily hurt her in the long run#especially if the war went on longer than it did in canon or played out even a little more like a real war would
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I really feel like at this point, 12 and 13 are a lot more under appreciated than 9 is.
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this is the first semester in a while where both of my friends have significant others and I do not. and I guess it’s because ive never had a relationship like that before but it is interesting to watch the dynamics of a romantic relationship from an outside perspective. like my friends and I hang out decently often, and yet my friends could go hours upon hours spending time w their significant others, ie staying overnight at their house or following them to a class that they dont even have. I guess what im trying to say is, as someone that doesnt have a relationship like that nor do I want one, it is rly interesting and a bit strange to see it happen in real time
#im reading this over and im like man I hope at least someone else relates to this (being the third wheel. or the fifth wheel)#and I also hope this doesnt come across as bashing romantic relationships bc that isnt my intent in the slightest#this is just a fifth wheel observing relationships that her friends have lol#apple lady words
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I am 100% serious when I say that Avengers Tony Stark did irreparable damage to media
#missmirakell#he was good as a single character#great even#that's why he fucking ruined so many things#slightly self-aware snarky writing#and made everyone try to replicate it#hell they even tried to replicate it in avengers 2 and ruined every character around Tony by making them bad clone/variations of him#i do not care about marvel or anything but that has been my observation over the last decade#it just makes me want to bash my head into a wall
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